- Part 2

A Writer's Journey Day Three, The Journey Starts

Jul 182011

The start is the worst place to start. Does that make sense? The blinking cursor on the blank page. Pulsing, expectant, impatient. Type and backspace. Type some more and correct a spelling error. Break. Coffee. What next?! It was the summer of 2002 and I had just finished my first full length screenplay. I loved talking about it. I loved every minute thinking about it. I loved writing it, and I loved the fact that I actually finished it; all one hundred and twenty pages. “What now?”, I thought. The answer to me at the time was brutal and devastating; [...]

A Writer's Journey, Day Two and Twitter

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Jul 112011

So my blog motivates me. It sits there waiting for me to return with more gems of wisdom, or a progress report. But I wouldn’t mind some real motivation to write; an audience. I want to hear from others in the same position as me, I want to hear from anybody, and for that to happen they must read my work. So, how do I go about sharing my blog. Network, network and network; also known as Facebook, Twitter and Following. I need to follow and be followed.

A History of Screen Writing, Part 2

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Jul 112011

During the 1930’s the shooting script evolved as the primary blue print to how the film was to be constructed. It was and still is a written breakdown of a film into individual shots, a purpose similar to its predecessor of the silent era. The studio system, now fully established used it to schedule shooting and draw up the budgets pertaining to the costs of each shoot. It was used by the director and crew during production and was what the screenplay became once it left the screenwriter and arrived on set. The system by which studios had scripts written [...]